Junior League Announces Speakers For Benefit Series

March 10, 1985|by ALICE LESORAVAGE, Sunday Call-Chronicle.

The Junior League of the Lehigh Valley Inc. has announced its 1985-86 lecture series featuring Mark Russell, Susan Lucci, Art Linkletter and Rocky Bleier, plus four special events for "an up close and personal meeting" with the speakers.

Political satirist, syndicated columnist, author and television humorist Mark Russell, who has appeared in the Lehigh Valley several times, will speak at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 11.

Art Linkletter, senior statesman of television and radio, author, humanitarian, recipient of seven honorary doctorates and member of the President's National Advisory Council for Drug Abuse Prevention and the Presidential Commission To Improve Reading in the United States, will talk about the nation's drug problems at 10:30 a.m. March 13, 1986.

Former star of the Pittsburgh

Steelers and NBC sports anchorman

Rocky Bleier, who overcame severe physical disabilities to go on to achieve four Super Bowl victories, will lecture at 7:30 p.m. April 26, 1986.

All lectures will be in the 2,000-seat Calvary Temple, Route 22 near Cedar Crest Boulevard in Allentown.

Tickets are being sold as a complete series only. Series tickets will be available at $35 for orchestra section, $30, premium section and $25 balcony. There will be no reserved seats within a section.

Tickets can be obtained by mail only and by sending a request and check to: Tickets, Junior League Lecture Series, 525 Main St., Bethlehem, Pa. 18018. Tickets will not be mailed until early September. All orders will be on a "first come, first served" basis.

Special limited seating events will be sponsored by the Junior League in conjunction with each of the lectures.

The public is invited to meet Mark Russell following his lecture at a dinner reception, catered by the Ballietsville Inn, at Allentown ArtMuseum. Cost is $50 per person, and reservations are limited to 150 persons.

After her morning lecture, Miss Lucci will be hostess for a luncheon and fashion show in the Lehigh Country Club. The show will feature holiday fashions by Saks Fifth Avenue, Philadelphia. Cost is $20 per person, and reservations are limited to 175 persons.

Plans are being made for a breakfast buffet in connection with Art Linkletter's talk and for a summer picnic in the gymnasium of Muhlenberg College with Rocky Bleier. Details about spring special events will be included with the lecture series tickets to be mailed in September.

Reservations for the fall special events can be obtained by mail only. Checks should be made payable to Junior League Lecture Series.

Chairman Norma Romberger said, "We have four excellent speakers," and "we're hoping to have a full house."

A waiting list will be established for reservations. Efforts will be made to accommodate handicapped patrons, and guests are asked to indicate requirements on the order form.

Funds raised by the league within the community have been used for projects which improve education, helping those in need, restoration and preservation of historic areas and enriching the artistic soul of residents.